Goniopora reussiana ( Duncan, 1865 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 146

Goniopora reussiana ( Duncan, 1865)

Pl. 13, Fig. 3

v*1865 Porites Reussiana , spec. nov.: Duncan, in Duncan & Wall, p. 8, pl. 1, fig. 2 (topotypes studied).

1868 Porites Reussiana, Dunc. : Duncan, p. 25.

1899 Porites reussiana, Duncan, Vaughan , p. 246.

v1906 Goniopora jamaica 1: Bernard, p. 159.

1929 Goniopora decaturensis Vaughan, 1919 : Coryell & Ohlsen, p. 223, pl. 40, fig. 7.

1934 Goniopora taberi , n. sp.: Wells, p. 155 (11), pl. 2, figs 5–7.

v1934 Goniopora reussiana (Duncan) : Wells, p. 90, pl. 4, fig. 18, pl. 5, figs 4–5.

v1934 Goniopora trechmanni , new species: Wells, p. 91, pl. 3, figs 16–17.

1941a Goniopora reussiana (Duncan), 1865 : Wells, p. 293 (11).

v1945 Goniopora hedbergi Wells , n. sp.: Wells, p. 7, pl. 2, figs 5–6

1974 Goniopora cascadensis Vaughan : Frost & Langenheim, p. 232, pl. 79, figs 3–7.

1974 Goniopora taberi Wells : Frost & Langenheim, p. 236, pl. 81, figs 1–4.

1992 Goniopora taberi Wells, 1934 : Budd et al., p. 572 and 593, table 1.

2002 Goniopora reussiana ( Duncan 1865) : Löser, et al. p. 323.

2002 Goniopora reussiana ( Duncan, 1865) : Baron-Szabo, p. 128.

v2002 Goniopora trechmanni Wells, 1934 : Baron-Szabo, p. 128, pl. 89, fig. 4.

Dimensions. d= 2–3 mm, juveniles as small as 1.8 mm; c-c=2.5– 4 mm; s=18–24, s (juveniles)=12.

Description. Ramose-multicolumnar to submassive, cerioid to subplocoid; septa generally 24 in number, arranged in 3 cycles in 6 systems, alternating in length and thickness; S1 extend to corallite center; pali before S1; columella generally small and weakly developed.

Remarks. In the specimen figured as Goniopora reussiana ( Duncan, 1865) (which is the holotype of Goniopora trechmanni Wells, 1934 ) on Plate, Fig. 3, the corallites are generally not closely united but rather are separated by a porous coenosteum. In this feature the specimen shows great resemblance to the genus Actinacis d’Orbigny , however, the septal arrangement is bilateral, pali are present, and in areas in which corallites are more densely spaced, cerioid polyp integration is found. Therefore, the specimen is grouped with the genus Goniopora .

Type locality of species. Campanian of Jamaica .

Distribution. Campanian-Maastrichtian of Cuba, Campanian-Maastrichtian and Eocene of Jamaica, Eocene of Cuba and Barbados (Upper Scotland Formation), Middle Eocene (San Juan Formation) and Upper Oligocene (La Quinta Formation) of Mexico, Upper Oligocene of Puerto Rico.